Flowers from My Garden

By Candice Shipley

A lot of these poems came from a sad place in the heart of Candice as she grew up with six other siblings for just a short period of time. They all began leaving one by one either by marriage or military and she became the only one left at home.

The innocence of a childhood with no worries would leave her at the age of fifteen when her biological father passed away, her grandfather, her brother in law and then next her cat

Her escapes into writing down her feelings were warranted one day when her mom read one of them and sat down and cried. It was about her father, the poem that "Thirteen Cents" is written about.

So the poems in this book are very much related to her feelings at the time. Some were initially written to someone who may have broken her heart and she then turned those poems into praising the Lord instead of dwelling in the past.

Candice enjoys her garden and adds flowers in memory of loved ones whose spirits have crossed over

Hopefully readers will enjoy her rhymes, maybe relate and maybe even shed a tear if it tugs on the heartstrings and make some a holiday tradition

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C42JKLXQ
• ISBN13: 9798889631712
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Pageturner Press and Media
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"